Hillston Demographics (NSW) Local Stats

Hillston (2675) is a suburb of Regional NSW, Far South West, New South Wales. It is about 527 kms from NSW's capital city of Sydney.
Hillston is in the federal electorate of Riverina.

In the 2011 census the population of Hillston was 1,430 and is comprised of approximately 48.0% females and 52.0% males.

The median/average age of the population of Hillston is 40 years of age.

85.5% of people living in the suburb of Hillston were born in Australia. The other top responses for country of birth were 1.3% India, 0.9% Ireland, 0.8% New Zealand, 0.8% England, 0.8% Korea, Republic of , 0.6% Scotland, 0.6% South Africa, 0.5% Philippines, 0.3% Italy, 0.3% Malta, 0.3% China , 0.3% Wales, 0.3% Netherlands, 0.3% Fiji.

92.2% of people living in Hillston speak English only. The other top languages spoken are 3.6% Language spoken at home not stated, 0.8% Korean, 0.5% Punjabi, 0.5% Other, 0.4% Hindi, 0.4% Other, 0.4% Arabic, 0.2% Cantonese, 0.2% French.

50.8% of people are married, 31.1% have never married and 7.6% are divorced and 3.1% are separated. There are 85 widowed people living in Hillston.

66.0% of the people living in Hillston over the age of 15 and who identify as being in the labour force are employed full time, 22.5% are working on a part time basis. Hillston has an unemployment rate of 4.4%.